Old Public Library

{{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Old Public Library | nrhp_type = | image = Old Public Library, Lawrence, MA.jpg | caption = | location = 190 Hampshire St.,<br/>Lawrence, Massachusetts | coordinates = {{coord|42|42|34|N|71|10|5|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Massachusetts#USA | area = | built = 1890 | architect = George G. Adams | architecture = Romanesque | added = November 28, 1978 | refnum = 78000452<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> }}

The '''Old Public Library''' is a historic library building in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The Richardsonian Romanesque structure was built in 1892 to a design by George G. Adams, a leading architect of public buildings in New England. The building is predominantly brownstone, with terracotta trim bands, an irregular and asymmetric massing with a tower, and its entrance recessed in an archway. It served as Lawrence's public library until 1973 when a new library building was built.<ref name=MACRIS>{{cite web|url=https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=law.81|title=MACRIS inventory record for Lawrence Old Public Library|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|access-date=2014-01-04}}</ref>

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.<ref name="nris"/>

==References== {{Reflist}} {{Lawrence, Massachusetts}} {{NRHP in Lawrence, Massachusetts}}

Category:Library buildings completed in 1890 Category:Buildings and structures in Lawrence, Massachusetts Category:Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Category:Libraries in Essex County, Massachusetts Category:National Register of Historic Places in Lawrence, Massachusetts